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I thinks its been down for about 3 days now which is a long time for a DOS attack is it not? I wonder what the longest Esato has ever been down for.
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Posted: 2007-08-17 11:18:43
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I think the longest Esato has been down for is only a few hours. Nobody has attacked Esato on the mobile-review scale.
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Posted: 2007-08-17 11:23:07
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Last time i was able to access it on 13th august evening.
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Posted: 2007-08-17 11:45:00
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thats bad...
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Posted: 2007-08-17 12:03:19
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all because of a negative review!!
that is BAD...
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Posted: 2007-08-17 12:07:51
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Personally I am horrified that a legitimate site is brought down because of an 'apparent' unhappy fan boy (or boys). Remember he's running a business as well, and it's not fair for any of the employees involved - nor the mobile industry.
There was absolutely no wrongdoing at all on Eldar's behalf. And if you were to consider it wrong, think about the type of stuff that gets posted on the internet which is far worse than a simple view about a
phone! There is much worse on the net, like this pro Nazi
site for example.
But free speech is a right - just as it is the right of conspiracy theorists to post their views on events - as long as what people are saying remains factual and nothing that Eldar said was incorrect. Perhaps he had a negative slant, but what has the world come to if you have to be completely neutral and have no opinion? Articles like that are meant to help people gain an opinion - they aren't specification tables. They're meant to help people decide whether or not they want to buy a product or gain an opinion.
And a quote from Eldar (via
this website):
Stefan,
After publishing article about iPhone positioning and some quotation on Russian part of Mobile-Review.com we received warnings from Apple fans that they could close site. Today, we are under DDOS attack and site is not available for readers. We try to filter traffic but too much computers send empty requests. I receive message from someone that this attack will show how iPhone is supreme above all other mobile phones. We try to solve this problem, but it takes some time.
If you could put some information about this on your site, it will be great. Thanks in advance.
P.S. Never think that Apple fans could be SO aggressive.
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[ This Message was edited by: shaliron on 2007-08-17 13:21 ]
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Posted: 2007-08-17 14:20:06
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MR offers 10 grand for information about the attackers:
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/8193.html
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Posted: 2007-08-17 15:56:22
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apple must be behind it. but easier to blame the faceless cowards that these apple fan boys are....
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Posted: 2007-08-17 16:44:55
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Now they're claiming it's because they are russian based!?
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Posted: 2007-08-17 16:48:20
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On 2007-08-17 16:48:20, Burgaz wrote:
Now they're claiming it's because they are russian based!?
Nah, I don't think so, they've gone too far with there imaginations!
here's a letter form Eldar explaining everything:
http://eldarmurtazin.livejournal.com/37978.html
Open letter by Mobile-Review.com Editor-in-Chief, Eldar Murtazin
Dear colleagues, friends and readers of Mobile-Review.com!
Over the last few days Mobile-Review.com has been under continuous DDOS attacks coming from unidentified individuals. Several tens of thousands of computers across the globe are supporting the attack – these are “infected” terminals, or, as they call it, bot-nets. Since the first wave, which disabled the site,as all the channels were being jammed, the algorithms of the attack have been altered numerous times – from individual computers to the entire subnetwork housing Mobile-Review.com in particular.
The attackers hope that by crushing Mobile-Review.com, they won’t let our visitors get unbiased information on events in the mobile industry, read independent reviews and share their opinions on forums. In light of the fact that similar attacks can be performed by individuals or small groups of people, we regard this incident as an attempt to impose censorship in the Internet. More than 200.000 of our readers from all over the world, visiting Mobile-Review.com every day to find up-to-the-minute information or just talk to other users, have been robbed of this opportunity. These culprits oppose themselves to the society. There is only a small step separating censorship of undesirable resources and articles from an attempt to get hold of mass media, dictating own viewpoints for the sake of personal benefits or political goals. The threat of such scenario can’t be underestimated. Since all tools required for a DDoS-attack are available for free, it can be carried out by individuals favoring some particular brand, or any company having sufficient resources to set an attack going. Regrettably, it is not possible to track attackers in this case, nor can they be proven guilty in a court of law. Earlier this year, in spring, similar attacks were aimed at other resources, specifically, “Echo of Moscow”,site of the Kommersant.
When the first attack was unfolding, the Editor-in-Chief of Mobile-Review.com received an anonymous message on his Internet-pager, which read that fans of Apple were behind the attack, as this was a sort of revenge forthe iPhone and the treatment it got over at Mobile-Review.com. Possibly, it is true, however there is a chance that the message was sent in order to put us off the track. It is not a secret that we release “burning”, critical articles that many don’t like. There have been many of these of late – we think of this as our duty to notify the readers and subscribers not only of events and new offerings in the mobile industry, but also of certain facts marring usability of various gadgets, or capable of affecting consumers.
The attack aimed at Mobile-Review.com is unprecedented in scope and persistence. That is why we believe it is essential to attract attention of the community and our readers to the attempt of censoring unwanted points of view. If you don’t express your opinion on what is currently taking place today, tomorrow you will be down to consume only the informationsomeone needs and sees appropriate to offer you. This statement might sound grotesque or made-up, but this is how it stands. Great deeds start with the first step. Today, it is Mobile-Review.com, and our readers, who can’t get to us; tomorrow there will be more targets and so on. Only together can we stop this disaster from spreading further.
We don’t have turnkey solutions that would make the Internet a better place, with readers and resources protected from this type of censorship. We will be more than happy if our colleagues, readers and other users express what they think of this problem - on his/her resource, forum or any other place on the Web they visit. It is worth defending yourself from this kind of censorship in future.
For the time being, the staff of Mobile-Review.com doesn’t have a complete strategy for countering these threats in future. The technical side of our current activities is obvious, and we are doing everything possible to get the site back as soon as possible. We engage the site occasionally, and hope to get over this attack shortly. You can share your personal point of view in my blog - eldarmurtazin.livejournal.com.
Since it is a DDoS-attack and the attackers can’t be tracked online, we offer 10.000 USD (ten thousand USD) to any individual or group of individuals who can provide documented information on the mastermind of this attack. You can send all reports to my email.
Editor-in-Chief,
Mobile-Review.com
Eldar Murtazin
eldar@mobile-review.com
August 17, 2007
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